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Backstage has launched a brand-new Talent Database to help casting directors and content creators find talent for their projects. Agents and managers can also use the system to scout for talent to represent. The Talent Database features more than 90,000 actors, models, and performers...

How can you keep your focus and concentration when you can hear a live uncensored narration of every move you make? As an actor, you know you are judged in every moment of your performance, but how do you deal with hearing the judgment while you are still performing?

The writer-director is being honored by the Casting Society of America for making “artistically authentic choices” when casting the 12-year epic “Boyhood,” starring Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, and Patricia Arquette.

The latest adaptation of a Gillian Flynn thriller, written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, hits screens starring Charlize Theron as Libby Day, tormented by what happened to her family decades before.